1980/01/01 by Daniel K. Tranberg, Mark Rilling · 31 citations
Mathematics · Medicine · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Audiology #Baseline (sea) #Cognition #Computer science #Interval (graph theory) #Matching (statistics) #Mathematics #Medicine #Neuroscience #Psychology #Short-term memory #Statistics #Task (project management) #Term (time) #Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes #Working memory
paper · pdf · doi:10.1901/jeab.1980.33-39
published in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 33(1), 39-49 (Wiley)
crossref issued 1980/01/01 · crossref published 1980/01/01 · crossref published-print 1980/01/01 · openalex publication_date 1980/01/01 · crossref created 2006/03/02 · crossref published-online 2013/02/26 · crossref deposited 2023/11/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · crossref indexed 2026/07/31 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Pigeons acquired a successive depayed matching-to-sample task at delay intervals ranging from 2.5 to 7 seconds. Test sessions were conducted during which delay-interval illumination conditions were changed from those illumination conditions that prevailed during the baselines. Compared to baseline delayed matching performance, changing delay-interval illumination disrupted matching. This disruption occurred whether the change in delay-interval illumination represented an increase or a decrease, relative to the baseline, and whether there was or was not a change in illumination during the test session. It was concluded that illumination per se introduced during delay intervals of delayed matching tasks does not interfere with pigeon short-term memory. Rather, a change in delay-interval illumination, relative to the baseline, appears to retroactively interfere in pigeon short-term memory.